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Amanda Witman
By Amanda Witman on Sun, May 19, 2013 - 11:41am

Interesting...delay on materials for my solar hot water

Got this in an email from the contractor who is handling my solar hot water installation (Wagner is the brand of panels that we are using):

I heard there is a backlog of requests for Wagner products so I'm not sure when that all will arrive. Sometimes it takes several weeks.  I guess the freighters are going much slower these days to conserve fuel.  Interesting to see how our post peak oil world is changing. 

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